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American
Cinematographer Manual (8th Edition)by Rob Hummel
Book Description: The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)
has just published the much-anticipated 8th edition of the "ASC Film Manual."
The manual is an authoritative source of technical information that is
a widely used reference around the world.

"Our purpose is to provide a single source of information that current
and future cinematographers and other filmmakers can rely on," says ASC
President Steven Poster. " ASC published its first film manual in 1930
(then called "The Cinematographic Annual"). This is the first new edition
since 1993. It contains updated and new information about the art and craft
of cinematography that was written and reviewed by the world's leading
experts."

There are 40 chapters and more than 100 tables and charts in the 929-page
manual. Each chapter is authored by a renowned expert on the subject. The
latest edition features new chapters covering such topics as high-definition
telecine mastering and digital film post-production.

Topics include:
-Comparisons of film formats
-Advice on choosing lenses and filters
-Techniques for emulsion testing
-Detailed description of lab procedures
-Information about lighting
-Camera stabilization and movement
-Front projection
-Motion control and other visual effects techniques
-Computer graphics
-Aerial and underwater cinematography
-How to expose film in infrared and ultra-violet light
-Digital film mastering
Hardcover from American Society of Cinematography

Digital
Cinematographyby Paul Wheeler
This book covers the `on-the-set' knowledge you will need to know -
its emphasis lies in practical application, rather than descriptions of
technologies, so that in this book you will find usable `tools' and information
to help you get the job done. From `getting the look' to lighting styles
and ratios, what is needed for different types of shoots and the technical
preparation required, this is a complete reference to the knowledge and
skills required to shoot high end digital films. The Publisher.
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 9.67 x 7.46Focal Press; ISBN: 0240516141;

Saving
Private Ryanby Steven Spielberg (Editor), et al
The photos and snippets of dialog and celebrity quotes in this tie-in
book to Steven Spielberg's D-day film Saving Private Ryan are a continuation
of the movie by other means. (Be forewarned that the book reveals one major
plot point concerning Matt Damon's Private Ryan character.) If the color
pictures look a bit washed-out compared to, say, Disney's The Art of Mulan,
that's the idea--Spielberg renounced his razzle-dazzle visual magic in
order to convey a brute reality honestly. "I didn't want to shoot the picture
as a Hollywood gung ho Rambo kind of extravaganza," Spielberg says in the
book. "Janusz [Kaminski, the cinematographer] stripped all the glossy filters
and the filaments from the lenses so they were just like the kind of lenses
they actually used in the Second World War. We shot a lot of the war sequences
with the shutter speed used by those Bell and Howell cameras of the 1940s
for making newsreels.... If we've done our jobs, [the audience] will think
we were actually on the beach on D-day." Time magazine opined that the
film boasts "quite possibly the greatest combat sequence ever made."

The photos in this book give an inkling of that impact, and also evince
the intense empathy for the GIs that won Spielberg the allegiance of the
leading historian Stephen E. Ambrose, whose stunning book Citizen Soldiers
was the director's prime influence. "I wanted to write about the lives
of the GIs," Ambrose said in an Amazon.com interview. "Books are always
written from the generals' point of view, but I'm sick of the generals
and their point of view. It's more refreshing to be with the guys who did
the fighting." After seeing the film or reading this book (or the novelization
Saving Private Ryan), you may not feel refreshed, but you will be enlightened.
And you will immediately want to read two other sagas of ordinary heroism
by Ambrose, D-day and Undaunted Courage, his ode to Meriwether Lewis.

Saving Private Ryan is, in a sense, a companion volume to Tim O'Brien's
masterpiece Going After Cacciato, about soldiers hunting down a deserter
during the Vietnam War. Spielberg's story of GIs risking their lives hunting
down an endangered dogface to save his life helps measure what it was that
Americans lost between World War II and Vietnam. --Tim Appelo - Amazon.comHardcover: 96 pagesNewmarket Press; ISBN: 1557043701; (July 24, )

What
They Don't Teach You at Film School : 161 Strategies to Making Your Own
Movie No Matter Whatby Camille Landau, Tiare White
Book Description: Two filmmakers who've beaten the system give
the real dope on what it takes to get your movie made Do you have to go
to film school to get your movies made? No, say two young entrepreneurs
who survived the grind. Here they offer 140 strategies for making movies
no matter what. Amateurs as well as seasoned veterans can pick up this
entertaining and incredibly useful guide in any place--at any point of
crisis--and find tactics that work. Whether it's raising money or cutting
your budget; dealing...
Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x
8.06 x 5.31Publisher: Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap); ISBN: 0786884770